David Crystal poetry competition

We present the winners of the David Crystal poetry competition.

In October the Telegraph and Profile Books invited readers to enter a poetry competition inspired by David Crystal's new book, The Story of English in 100 Words.

The challenge was to write a poem of no more than 100 words using at least 25 words from Crystal's list.

We are pleased to announce that it the winning poem is Ex-Teacher Tries to Chillax by Anne Ryland, and that we have also picked a runner-up, Subprime Capitalism Blues by Gavin Woodworth, both published below. We also include our other favourties.